EP0041350A2 - Procédé et appareil pour l'élimination "on line" par filtration, de macromolécules d'un fluide physiologique - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to plasmapheresis and. more particularly to the removal of undesirable solutes from plasma in a plasmapheresis process.
- Plasmapheresis (the removal of blood, separation of the plasma and the reinfusion of the blood cells) with or without the replacement of the patient's plasma by donor plasma, a plasma fraction, or other physiological solution, is becoming more useful in the clinical treatment of various disease states.
- Such disease states have in common the presence of undesirable elevated levels of plasma solutes.
- Such solutes due to their increased size) cannot be effectively removed by techniques such as dialyses and hemofiltration. Therefore plasma removal with the infusion of physiological solutions is effective in depleting their concentration.
- Various disease states treated by plasmapheresis are as follows.
- the treatments presently being carried out by plasmapheresis may be generally grouped into two types: (1) removal of an abnormal metabolite(s) or toxin(s) and (2) treatment of a disorder of the immune system.
- Examples of the first type include hepatic support, hyper- triglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia, and the removal of protein or lipid bound toxins.
- Examples of the second type include myasthenia gravis, glomerulonephritis, macro- globulinemias, arthritis, and systemic lupus erythema- tosis.
- antibodies specific for the acetycholine receptors are elevated. Removal of these antibodies by plasmapheresis shows improvement in the patients.
- macroglobulinemia there is an increased level of gamma globulin. Reducing this level by plasmapheresis is clinically effective.
- the conventional method of plasmapheresis employs a cell centrifuge involving bulky and expensive equipment which is not portable and is very costly, and carries with it potential hazards. Namely, essential plasma products are lost that are not being replenished in the substitution fluids and the potential exists for acquiring hepatitis. In addition, the effectiveness of the procedure is limited due to the limited removal that can be accomplished in discarding a limited volume. If conventional plasmapheresis were to be accepted for the treatment of many of these diseases there would be created a greater need for plasma products than could be met nationally. Obviously, to take advantage of plasmapheresis in treating these diseases, new techniques must be developed for removal of the plasma "toxins".
- a further object of the invention is to provide a plasmapheresis method and apparatus of the above type wherein a physiological solution is withdrawn from a patient, treated by removing macromolecules of predetermined size, and returned to the patient in a continuous process.
- a further object is to remove molecules from the plasma which form a macromolecule after adding a complexing agent to the plasma.
- a further object of the invention is to provide a plasmapheresis apparatus for "on-line” removal of macromolecules of predetermined size from a patient's physiological solution that is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and highly effective in operation.
- a method of removing macromolecules from a physiological solution including: securing a physiological solution stream such as blood from a patient; separating such physiological solution stream into a concentrated cellular element stream and a plasma stream containing macromolecules therein by either a centrifuge or a membrane filter; cooling such plasma stream to a temperature of between just above the freezing point of the plasma stream and 35° centigrade; filtering macromolecules of predetermined size out of the cooled plasma stream to form a filtered plasma stream; combining such filtered plasma stream and such cellular element stream to form a processed stream; heating the processed stream to body temperature; and returning the heated processed stream to the patient in a continuous operation.
- the cooler cools the separated stream to a temperature between about just above the freezing point of the separated stream and about 35 * centigrade to cause such macromolecules to gel or precipitate.
- a complexing agent may be added to the plasma to promote formation of macromolecules.
- the invention also includes an apparatus for removing macromolecules from a patient's physiological solution such as blood including plasma separation means, such as a centrifuge or a membrane filter, for dividing a physiological solution containing macromolecules into a concentrated cellular element stream and a plasma stream, a cooler in fluid flow communication with the plasma separation means for receiving the plasma stream therefrom and cooling such plasma stream to cause the macromolecules therein to gel or precipitate, filter means such as a membrane filter in fluid flow communication with the cooling unit for receiving the cooled plasma stream therefrom and filtering such cooled plasma stream to remove macromolecules of a predetermined size therefrom, fluid flow communication means for receiving the filtered plasma stream from the filter means and for receiving the concentrated cellular element stream and combining the two last-named streams to form a processed stream for return to the patient.
- plasma separation means such as a centrifuge or a membrane filter
- a pump may be employed in fluid flow communication with the plasma separation means and with the patient to pump the physiological solution from the patient to the plasma separation means.
- the physiological solution may be lympth or ascitic fluid.
- the cooling unit cools the separated plasma stream to a temperature of between just above the freezing point of the separated plasma stream and approximately 35° centigrade.
- a heater unit may be operatively secured to the fluid flow communication means at a point in such fluid flow communication means after which the filtered plasma stream and the concentrated cellular element stream are combined to heat the processed stream to approximately body temperature before it is returned to the patient.
- the filter means may be encased in the cooling unit for receiving the cooled plasma stream therefrom to further cool such cooled plasma stream.
- Cryoprecipitates Serum globulins that precipitate or gel on cooling at low temperatures (4-35°C) and redissolve on warming
- Cryoqlobulins Homogenous proteins that have become physically altered (myeloma, mixtures of immunoglobulins (as IgG and (IgM, or immune complexes (as antigen and antibody), possible with complement (as in SLE) Mol. Wt. 100,000 - 1,800,000
- Macromolecules Molecules of 100,000 daltons molecular weight or higher
- Plasma exchange has been shown to be effective in the treatment of various diseases, including the immunologically based disease states. This technique, however, has severe limitations in chronic applications, such as limited removal related to the volume of exchange and dilution by the infusion solution and the requirement for plasma products. Removal-of the macromolecules as immune complexes by specific sorbents in most cases requires extensive development work. The nonspecific removal of macromolecules by membrane filtration makes the treatment simpler and more universal in application.
- plasma is separated on-line from whole blood.
- the plasma which contains the macromolecules -s then filtered through a membrane filter which rejects the macromolecules and passes the albumin and smaller size plasma solutes which are reinfused into the patient.
- a membrane filter which rejects the macromolecules and passes the albumin and smaller size plasma solutes which are reinfused into the patient.
- albumin with rheumatoid arthritis plasma and membranes of nominal pore size of 0.1 microns, over 97% passage of albumin was achieved with greater than 25% rejection in a single pass of rheumatoid factor and Clq binding immune complexes.
- the increased levels of cryoprecipitates containing antigen and or antibody in the form of immune complexes with or without complement suggests that their removal could be therapeutic.
- Modification of the on-line plasma filtration circuit is made to include a heat exchanger to cool the plasma to below 10°C before filtration.
- a heat exchanger to cool the plasma to below 10°C before filtration.
- FIGURE 1 illustrates the method and apparatus of the invention as applied to the filtration of blood, although it will be understood that any other type of physiological fluid such as, for example, lymph, ascitic fluid, etc., may be treated.
- FIGURE 1 blood is drawn from a patient into line 10 and fed into a pump 12 from which it is pumped into a line 14 and then into membrane filter 1.
- a centrifuge may be employed as the function at this point is to separate the blood into a plasma solution stream (fed into line 18) and a concentrated cellular element stream (which is fed into line 19).
- the plasma solution is led down a line 18 to a cooling unit 20 where the plasma solution is cooled to a temperature of between just above the freezing point of the plasma solution and about 35° centigrade to cause the macromolecules to gel or precipitate.
- the cooled plasma solution is led down the line 22 to membrane filter 2, where the macromolecules are retained (and the albumin and lower molecular weight components pass through).
- the filtered plasma (plasma) minus larger molecular weight solute) is led through the line 24 to the juncture 26, where the filtered plasma stream and the concentrated cellular element stream are joined or united (to form a processed stream) and then fed into line 28 and thence into the heater unit 30.
- the heater unit 30 heats the processed stream to body temperature. The heated processed stream is then fed into the line 32 and returned to the patient in a continuous process.
- the cooling unit 20a is shown encasing the filter 2 (and a portion of the incoming line 22) such filter 2 being enclosed in a layer of insulation 34. This structure assures proper (cooled) temperature maintenance within filter 2 during the filtering process.
- a complexing agent is an agent which will allow single or multiple plasma factors to form a complex of higher molecular weight.
- agent could be a sorbing agent or ion exchange material such as, for example, heparin which forms complexes with cholesterol and lipid containing components.
- FIGURES 1 and 2 outline filtration for the separation of plasma from whole blood.
- a cell centrifuge could also be used in place of membrane filter 1 for the generation of the plasma flow stream.
- the plasma which contains the factors of interest, is directed to a membrane filter 2 designed to filter out the macromolecule(s) of interest, but pass those plasma solutes of smaller size.
- the plasma is then reunited with the blood flow (concentrated cellular element stream) from filter 1 (or in the case of a centrifuge the blood flow from the centrifuge) before being returned to the patient.
- filter 1 For filter 1, a membrane with a normal porosity of 0.2-1 micron would be required to generate the plasma. Past investigations with membranes in the lower range porosity have indicated that sieving coefficients of certain plasma macromolecules in the normal and the disease states are low (less than 0.8). In addition, operational conditions of filter 1, including blood and plasma flows, and velocities and transmembrane pressures may seriously affect the sieving properties of the macromolecules of interest. The filtration of blood in filter 1 is cross flow. Filter 2, which employs a membrane with a porosity of nominally 0.01 to 0.2 microns, would be required to remove macromolecules of 100,000 daltons molecular weight or.greater.
- the filtration of the plasma in this filter may be cross flow or conventional (flow directly into filtration media).
- a recirculation circuit and an additional pump are required in cross flow.
- a variable resistor (as a screw clamp) may be placed to regulate the rate of filtration.
- Serum globulins that precipitate or gel on cooling,at low temperatures (nominally 35- 4°C and generally 25-4"C) and redissolve on warming may occur in a variety of disorders such as myeloma, kala-azar, macroglobinemia, malignant lymphoma, collagen diseases as lupus, glomerulonephritis, infectious mononucleosis, syphilis, cytomegalovirus disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune diseases.
- the globulins may represent homogeneous proteins that have become physically altered (myeloma), mixtures of immunoglobulins (as IgG and IgM), or immune complexes (such as antigen and antibody), possibly with complement (as in systemic lupus erythematosus).
- cryoglobulins refers to those abnormal globulins.
- the molecular weight of cryoglobulins vary from 100,000 to 1,800,000 daltons molecular weight.
- cryoglobulins will precipitate out at room temperature, but as a rule, sera have to be cooled to 10°C or lower, before precipitation occurs. With the cryoglobulins cooled to a level to cause precipitation or gelling the filtration of these substances from the plasma is greatly facilitated.
- the advantage of .-his scheme over the direct filtration scheme without excessive cooling is that the membrane porosity or pore size may be increased allowing for higher sieving of the normal proteins in the plasma and therefore more efficient return to the patient.
- cooling of the plasma would normally take place in the circuit the temperature decrease may not always be uniform or low enough therefore a heat exchange system woulc: be most desirable to cool the plasma.
- the blood should be rewarmed by heater 30 to physiological temperature on its return to the patient.
- the membranes were Tuffryn HT-100 (polysulfone) with pore size of 0.1 micron from Gelman Sciences (Ann Arbor, Michigan), XM300 (acrylic copolymer)(approximately 0.02 micron pore size) from Amicon (Lexington, Massachusetts), (VMWP-approximately 0.05 micron pore size) MF (mixed cellulose acetate and nitrate) from Millipore Corp. (Bedford, Massachusetts).
- Plasma from a patient suffering from rheumatoid arthritis was procured by centrifugation. Such plasma contained elevated levels of rheumatoid factor and C l q binding immune complexes.
- the membranes were assembled into small test cells giving a total surface area of 56 cm 2 .
- the plasma was recirculated through the test cells at ambient temperature.
- the plasma was filtered first through an Asahi filter. This filtration process reduces the concentration of macromolecules in the plasma.
- the plasma was used after decantation following refrigeration. This procedure results in the removal of a significant amount of cryoglobulins from the plasma.
- a 54-year old white female was selected with extremely aggressive seropositive rheumatoid arthritis who failed all accepted modes of therapy and in addition failed cytotoxic drugs including Methotrexate and Cytoxan.
- the only therapeutic modality to which she has transiently responded has been plasmapheresis.
- the subject's blood was treated by the method and apparatus of FIGURE 1, such treatment reducing her immune complex C 1q Binding ( ⁇ 74 u/ml.) from 2256 units down to 688 units with a resultant improvement in symptomatology.
- FIGURES 3 and 4 In this experiment, a patient's plasma was treated by the method and apparatus of FIGURE 1. It will be noted in FIGURE 3 that the albumin loss was only about 20%, while as shown in FIGURE 4, the cryo-protein reduction was about 95%.
- treatment time is normally about two to four hours, with roughly 1.7 to 3.0 liters of plasma being treated.
- Controlled recirculation of the treated plasma from line 24 over to line 18 could be effected if desired.
- the invention provides a method of removing macromolecules from a plasma solution including providing a plasma solution containing macromolecules including a minimum size thereof, cooling the plasma solution to a temperature not lower than just above the freezing point of the plasma solution, and filtering the plasma solution with a membrane filter 2 having a porosity up to said minimum size to remove macromolecules of predetermined size from the plasma solution.
- Also provided is a method of removing macromolecules from a physiological solution such as blood including, securing a physiological solution from a patient, separating the physiological solution stream into a concentrated cellular element stream and a plasma stream containing macromolecules therein by either a membrane filter or a centrifuge, filtering macromolecules of predetermined size out of the plasma stream to form a filtered plasma stream, combining the filtered plasma stream and the cellular element stream to form a processed stream, and returning the processed stream to the patient in a continuous process.
- the step of heating the processed stream to approximately body temperature before it is returned to the patient may also be included.
- the membrane filter for removing the macromolecules out of the separated stream has a porosity of nominally 0.01 to 0.2 microns to pass macromolecules of approximately 70,000 molecular weight and below and reject or collect macromolecules of approximately 100,000 molecular weight and over.
- the invention also contemplates an apparatus for removing macromolecules from a patient's physiological solution including, plasma separation means 1 for dividing;a physiological solution such as blood containing macromolecules into a concentrated cellular element stream and a plasma stream, a cooler 20 in fluid flow communication with the plasma separation means 1 for receiving the.plasma stream therefrom and cooling such plasma -.tream to cause the macromolecules therein to gel or precipitate, filter means 2 in fluid flow communication with the cooling unit 20 for receiving the cooled plasma stream therefrom and filtering such cooled plasma stream to remove macromolecules of a predetermined size therefrom, fluid flow communication means 26 for receiving the filtered plasma macrosolute stream from the filter means and for receiving the concentrated cellular element stream and combining said two last-named streams to form a processed 'stream for return to the patient in a continuous process.
- plasma separation means 1 for dividing
- a physiological solution such as blood containing macromolecules into a concentrated cellular element stream and a plasma stream
- a cooler 20 in fluid flow communication with the plasma separation means
- a pump 12 in fluid flow communication with the plasma separation means 1 and with the patient to pump the physiological solution from the patient to the plasma separation means 1.
- the cooling unit 20 cools the separated plasma stream to a temperature of between just above the freezing point of the separated plasma stream and approximately 35° centigrade, although it is to be understood that the cooler 20 may be eliminated in certain instances.
- the heater unit 30 is preferred, but may be eliminated if the temperature in the line 28 is near body temperature.
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